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FLUFFYGERM posted...

MarqueeSeries posted...

The problem is that our system isn't set up to accommodate the people displaced by a shrinking number of manufacturing jobs. Factories are the lifeblood of many small to medium sized Midwestern towns, and when they shut down, you could be looking at 1000s of people all trying to flood into every other labor market in the area

Which is a problem that more broadly affects older people who were working in those factories for a decade or two. It doesn't really affect millennials who are college educated and can easily find meaningful employment in today's economy.

It's affecting a lot more millenials than you might think. Again, I'm gonna argue from a Midwestern perspective here, but an easily attainable education is not a reality in many of these places. At best, a small town might have a community college, or a university an hour+ away in a bigger town. I drive 50 miles each way for school because I'm fucking insane I guess, and I found a job that works around school schedules and my fiance helps make ends meet (at the cost of her not being able to go to school), but many can't find a situation like this that works for them

And to add to that, it was just this year that a town near me lost not only their community college branch, but their state university branch as well, so that's something to consider happening.
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